Bakemono no ko is a great action, adventure film with a lot of comedy in it. It illustrates the distinguishment between good decisions and bad decisions, the solution to self-reconciliation and the means to calming one self as Ren would do things as he wanted when he was angry as a child, but was able to distinguish good from bad when he was with everyone around him, and as in one part, the lord would like to use his reincarnation right to be reborn as a 'god of decisiveness'.

Thisis anime adventure film .
Kyuta is a tolerant and smart boy. Once he went in face-animal world .he got bullying and underestimate .he meets his master Kumatestu in the Battle fighting with his enemy . His master defeat by collapsed on the ground .
Kyata trying follow his master and learn from his master .His master he dose not know how to teach the lesson to kyuta easily by acting yell loudly .
That is not helpful to him . He learns by expect the gesture from the partners.Finally he reached his talent can even endorse with his master and many animal face bodies around .
Again he goes in human world and meet a girl who his the similar history. She tries to read the books and writing the alphabets . kyuta rapidly read the books .
The kyuta he suddenly get up again to fight with his enemy .

I really love this Anime movie because the movie is really touching, which I almost cried in the hall and it teach me not to give up easily. It is one of the most enjoyable movie I have ever watch before.

The boy and the Beast is great movie , Nine-year-old Ren (蓮) has recently lost his mother, whom he has lived with since his parents' divorce. With no news of his father and refusing to live with his legal guardians, Ren flees into the streets of Shibuya, resenting humanity. After stealing some food and finding an alley to sleep in, he finds a mouse to share his food with. He then reminisces about the aftermath of his mothers funeral.

In the Beast Kingdom (渋天街, jūtengai), the lord has decided he will retire in order to reincarnate as a deity and names two potential successors: the popular Iôzen, who is also the father of two children, and the powerful Kumatetsu (熊徹), who is also lonely and lazy. The Grandmaster (宗師, Shūshi) suggests that Kumatetsu find a disciple in hopes of inspiring him to succeed him.

While wandering the streets of Tokyo with his makeshift companion, Tatara, Kumatetsu meets Ren and suggests that the boy becomes his disciple. Though Ren is fiercely opposed, he follows Kumatetsu back to the Beast Kingdom out of curiosity but is unable to go back to the human world. As he watches a battle between Iôzen and Kumatetsu, Ren is impressed with Kumatetsu's persistence despite the lack of support from onlookers. When Ren cheers for him, Kumatetsu is easily defeated. However, the Grandmaster declares actual duel of succession has not come yet.

Taking Ren as a disciple, Kumatetsu gives him a new name, Kyûta (九太 Kyūta) in relation to his age. Their initial training sessions go poorly as Kumatetsu does not know how to teach, but Kyûta realizes that he can learn from Kumatetsu by imitating him as he performs household tasks. The boy gradually finds that he can predict his master's movements to improve his fighting skills and they soon begin in training together.

Eight years later, Kyûta has become a distinguished kendo practitioner and hopes to make his master proud. Through his relationship with Kyûta, Kumatetsu gained his own following of supporters, including the younger son of Iôzen; Jirōmaru, and receives a number of requests from young beasts wishing to be trained. By chance, Kyûta finds his way back to the human world, where he befriends Kaede (楓), a young student who helps Kyûta catch up with his studies. In the process, Kyûta discovers that his father is hoping to meet him and catch up on their lost years apart. Torn by his double life, he is unable to reconcile the resentment he had as Ren and the lack of connections he has as Kyûta. When he rejects both his father and Kumatetsu, he discovers a powerful void within himself that nearly overwhelms him until Kaede calms him down and gives him a bracelet that has helped her when she becomes anxious.

On the day of the succession duel, Kumatetsu loses confidence without Kyûta's encouragement and is quickly subdued by Iôzen (猪王山 Iōzen). However, Kyûta has been secretly watching and reveals himself, helping Kumatetsu defeat Iôzen. When Kumatetsu is declared the winner and the new lord, Iôzen's elder son Ichirôhiko (一郎彦 Ichirōhiko) is revealed to be a human who had been found on the streets of Tokyo and adopted by Iôzen. Having developed a vacuum in his heart like Kyûta, Ichirôhiko manifests telekinetic powers and seriously injures Kumatetsu. Kyûta is nearly overtaken by his own emptiness and tries to kill Ichirôhiko, but regains his senses with Kaede's bracelet as Ichirôhiko is consumed by darkness and disappears.

Kyûta decides to leave for the human world to fight Ichirôhiko. When Kaede stubbornly refuses to leave him, they are attacked by Ichirôhiko, who pursues them in the form of a destructive whale. Unable to hold his own against Ichirôhiko, the young man decides to use the vacuum within himself to absorb his opponent's negative energy and then kill himself, saving everyone else. Before he can follow through with this self-sacrifice Kumatetsu uses his new privilege as the lord and reincarnates as a deity, taking the form of a sword "to be handled with the heart" in reference to their first training session together. He merges with his pupil's form, filling his empty void within him, and guides him into defeating his enemy without killing him. Ichirôhiko wakes up surrounded by his adoptive family, understanding that he is, like Ren, a human raised by beasts, and accepts it as well.

In the aftermath, Ren celebrates his victory with Kaede in the Beast Kingdom and returns to the human world. After reconciling with his father and himself, he attends the local university and keeps Kumatetsu within his heart.

I came to the movie theater (because my girl friend was late) so I lost a few minutes from the start but it was easy for me to understand the story. Anime is quite familiar to me so the same to The boy and the Beast. I love this one. The story runs quite slow a bit at beginning, both the boy and the beast are too pertinacious until the boy see the battle between his master and master PIG. The fight is really funny and great in fighting also. Each character in this film is specific and have a particular role. All of them are good person, including the bad boy, the son of master PIG, he is a bad guy not because of the inside of him, just because of the darkness eat his soul and control him and he is controlled also because of wrong education, wrong way of love not his choice. It is full of humanity, very meaningful. the boy is so smart and studious, keep moving forward always. There are too many of lessons in this movie, how to be a good teacher, how to be a good disciple, how to be a good father, a good son, a good person… But the basic lesson I love most is we are not alone in this world, this society, we all need the other to be good, to be better, to keep us away from darkness, because love is always beside us. The boys find the bad boy not to revenge for his master, he find the bad boy because if he was given too much love from the people beside him, he would be controlled by darkness too. So he has to find the bad boy be cause of love not revenge, to rescue him. I think that the film will not have part 2 or become a series but I hope so because they also lovely. Thank you all!

In a world where monsters live peacefully in a different dimension from human world, an angry orphaned human boy Kyuuta slips into the monsters world and is raised by a strong (yet lonely and silly) beast Kumatetsu. Through his various adventures, Kyuuta learns how to be strong, physically and emotionally.
Bakemono no ko is a fun and heartwarming coming of age story with fantastic visuals and great music. I could not hold my tears when I was watching some emotional scenes… Thank you Japan Foundation for bringing the movie! 🙂

As I was watching the movie, where Shibuya was an important setting, my eyes and mind almost tricked to believe that The Boy and the Beast was not an anime. The way the images moved and glared gave an almost-real cinematic look.

The movie had a bit of humor, pre-teen and teenage angst and loneliness, careful fights, subtle emotions, father/father figure-and-sons bonds, and safe-level of human dark side. It's the perfect movie for a Sunday day-out.

Speaking of Shibuya/Shinjuku setting, the ABC Mart shoe store, some karaoke neon sign, Book Off neon sign, don't they belong to Shinjuku instrad of Shibuya?

+ the artstyle, story, characters, animation and music are all excellent

– there are some characters that were introduced and dismissed, with less development, making them seems unnecessary

– the idea of this whole movie was to showcase Ren's personal conflict, choosing between the life of human or beast, but this conflict was dismissed pretty quickly with a very little and unsatisfying villain development

I've watched his previous work in summer wars and the girls who leapt through time so i'm excited for Mamoru Hosoda new movie's.

The premises is simple, what's the meaning of strength and how a small boy and an adult beastsman interpreted it differently. It's supposed to be hard being stronger by yourself and ignoring your surroundings but somehow i could empathize their reason. The growths/hardship/joy/sweat/tear really flowing throughout the story, what a memorable scene when kumatetsu teach kyuta how to be strong just by simple word "you just do this, and bang" the simplistic teaching yet become….

Well you just have to watch it yourself, how this teacher/student relationships flourished into.

The things that make me not giving this move a full score is, how they so late introducing the heroine kaede to the stories.

this movie have a good image quality, i love the plot story of this movie. but this movie have a hole like final batle not good enough like naruto or one piece, the sad part of this movie not good enough like ano hana or fullmetal alchemist. but overall its joyfull.

Hype about a movie titled The Boy and The Beast that was released in 2015 in Japan has also heard in Indonesia. The ticket was sold well and has high score on IMDB site, made me very curious about this movie. And my curiosity was answered at the event Japanese Film Festival 2016 held the second time in Jakarta.

This movie about a boy who has just lost her mother. Ren felt sad over the death of his mother. He reluctantly live with a family who will take care of him. He also felt disappointed with the father who had left him. When he was sad and angry, he met with the monster wandering into the human world. The bear monster named Kumatetsu is currently seeking students at the request of his leader. He then offered Ren became his pupil and calls him as Kyuta

However, Kumatetsu not a good teacher. They always fight. Finally, both were able to get along as teacher and pupil. Kyuta was growing stronger, Kumatetsu also learn to be more patient.

Kumatetsu itself is one of the leader candidate. To compete for the position, he will be faced with other candidates, namely Iousen. Iousen is the strongest candidate because he was patient and skillful, also has two children as successor.

When Kyuta had a teenager, he accidentally entered into the human world. There, he met the girl named Kaede. He was taught many things and asked him to take the university entrance exam. Kyuta then was very doubt about his future, as a martial arts expert or become prospective students.

The film lasted almost two hours has an interesting storyline and has a complete package, action, with comedy and romance element. I love to see the main characters development. Kyuta and Kumatetsu who often irritable and quarrelsome slowly turning into a more patient and thoughtful.

The story of this monster world is not a like Hollywood monster, but a supernatural creature in the world that can be disguised as an animal or creepy creature. Creature here can ride top-class as goddes/god based on manners and actions previously.

A quick look at the movie trailer entitled The Boy and The Beast (bakemono no Ko), I were remember watching movie that has a distinctive image and scene likeness of the Boy and The Beast. The film was titled Wolf Children. The stories of both movies has some resemblance. There is a monster theme is also a meeting between men and women in which the woman described intelligent and the man interested in the book, though not educated. Both relationships on the basis of common interests, learning. I even suspect both movie has connection. Apparently not. Making it similar in terms of visuals and storyline in part because both of movie had the same director, Mamoru Hosoda.

I think this movie is not as good as my prediction. Quite interesting, but not really superb. Most of my appreciation of this film is the storyline that is quite unique and complete.

It's really is an excellent film and one of my favorites. It my first time watching the full movie but I've seen the teaser and some of the screen from the internet before. Even though that the plot is easy to predict but I still enjoy every moment of it. Now I want to be like Ren, that guy is really cool. He show me that with great determination and training you can become excellent at something and success in it, but alone you won't be able to it. Kuma may be stubborn but He and Ren is really the same. I guess when you finally found someone who is similar to you, who has been through some kind of hard time like you, you will get along really well and feel like you have found someone that know your true feeling and you tell yourself that you're really glad that you found him 0_0. Anyway great film, would like to have another film fest in lao.